PositiveSan Francisco ChronicleNumerous biographies, of course, have been written about Groucho and his comic troupe, but Siegel, a widely published cultural critic, is after something different in his short book. Part of Yale University Press’ Jewish Lives series, it offers an astute psychological profile of the man whose biting, nihilistic comedy broke so many barriers, just as dramatically as the mirror in that scene was smashed.
